Long Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Long Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tired-portal-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Kesteven
- Constituency
- Sleaford and North Hykeham MP: Dr Caroline Johnson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Long Cottage, High Street, Swinderby, LN6 9LU
- OS grid reference
- SK 868 630
- Coordinates
- 53.15762, -0.70277
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Long Cottage is an early 18th-century cottage constructed of brick with a 20th-century tiled roof. It features two gable stacks and a single ridge stack. The building is two storeys high and has four bays. The main entrance is off-centre and includes a 20th-century glazed door with a rectangular overlight above it. To the east, there is a four-fielded panel door. On either side of the main door, there are single three-light casement windows, and above them are two three-light sliding casements. The eastern bay has two two-light sliding casements. There is a single-storey extension to the east. Inside, the cottage has chamfered beams.
Local climate
Long Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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